As water, wind, and animal power gave way to the Industrial Revolution, steam engines provided the cheap power necessary for mass production. They were notoriously dangerous and unreliable, often shoddily built of unsuitable materials, and they...

Combustion of fuel is external to the engine and heated fluid (air) is led to the piston for the power stroke. A steam engine is also an external combustion...

The principle that makes Stirling engines possible is quite simple. When air is heated it expands, and when it is cooled it contracts. Stirling engines work by cyclically heating and cooling air (or perhaps another gas such as helium) inside a leak...

In the family of heat engines, 'Stirling engine' defines a closed-cycle regenerative hot air engine. In this context; "hot air" may be taken to include other permanent gasses, "closed-cycle" to mean the working fluid is permanently contained within the...

An innovative Australian spin on the simple age-old technology of the Stirling engine could be the answer to one of our region's more pressing problems--the need for a cheap, portable, low maintenance renewable energy unit. The economical 'solar Stirling' generator is all the...

ELIZABETH STIRLING Review Feature by Barbara Owen ELIZABETH STIRLING AND THE MUSICAL LIFE OF FEMALE ORGANISTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND, Judith Barger. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2007. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-75465129-1. $99.95. My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Stirling occurred some years ago...